1984/farenheit 451/Brave New World are the adolescent trilogy for me that anyone who wants to understand the nature of people and mechanics of power would do well to read.

I’d add Animal Farm to that as well.

Definitely a Dr. Evil headline. $1.3m? What is this 1992?

California: 80% of water use is agricultural and industrial but who do they lean on in drought years? Jimmy fucking John and minute showers. Corporations will not budge without force so state goes after the soft target.

Same play here.

“The company has also put a few extra locks on the payroll office. Employees can now access pay slips or update direct deposit details only from a corporate network or through a secure VPN, while Nissan adds extra identity checks before processing payroll requests.”

Time to close the barn door now that all the animals have escaped. I’m lucky enough not to have had to use PS much in my HR career but these are all common safeguards that any client let alone software provider can/should have enabled.

You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain.

Yeah they needed grant a lot more than another talented point guard. Granted Jrue and lillard are in their twilights, they also have “face of the franchise” scoot?

/shockedstoat

And LaBubu, “blind box” where you don’t know which one you’re getting and to get a specific color have to repurchase. Why sell 1 to a kid when you can make them buy 150.to get the “special” one? Artificial scarcity and gambling at its finest. Set those endorphins up from a young age.

Imagine they were concerned about how addictive Diablo II was back in the day…

Imagine when spastically making alternating claims of illegal global tariffs on one of your strongest trading partners and holders of 1/4 of your sovereign debt is your 3rd-worst conversation piece.

All the news fit to-gone! Nothing! Shop closed, bets off!

Boo. Let the billionaire subsidize his own palace. We have our own problems without welfare for the ultra rich

Good for him, dude deserves to get paid.

Paywall

All tax breaks for development should only go to housing that lower income individuals can afford. Only expensive housing gets built. That is the main issue in Portland and elsewhere, meanwhile PDC is giving out tax breaks to highrises for luxury condos.

There is a reason why medicine is setup to have experienced people guide the uninformed; we can’t all go to medical school. The complexity of tech is no less than that field but because modern tech unfortunately largely developed in a no-holds-barred US capitalist violence machine against the average person, they have few advocates, little visibility and almost no recourse.

Who better to bill than someone who has established good credit and who something can likely be scraped from when medical bankruptcy hits? What a refreshing angle.

The EU is under full frontal assault on many of its financial, consumer, commercial and technological protections and systems and is cracking and giving the pressure in many places unfortunately. Partner with the EU where you can, there are also interesting things happening in Brasil IIRC in this space.

As an American, I hope Canadians see through the false dilemma being proposed and learn from the abuse NAFTA and only-quarterly-results-matter thinking got the American middle class in manufacturing and consumption; it almost no longer exists and has been deflated rapidly. To say nothing of the clear lessons about off-shoring critical infrastructure, I hope cooler heads prevail and Canada maintains its sovereignty.

The Goat?

Reminds me of signs in Oregon “No littering, $500 maximum fine"

Like why the fuck would you put the max when it’s low? Talk about a Cobra Effect…but that’s the point, it’s not desired to be effective, might inadvertently make driving slightly less appealing and cut some infinitesimal slice of big oils profits to be able to cross the street safely.